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Niederhoffer had earlier downed Ralphe Howe, Sam Howe's younger brother and another former champ, in semi-finals, 3-2. In the past three years, Niederhoffer has reached the semi-finals twice and the finals once, he had never won the title...
Tickets are going fast for the Beanpot opener, which pits the Crimson against a Northeastern sextet that was the hottest team in New England during January. The other semi-final pairs Boston College, bolstered by returning Jack Cuniff and Phil Dyer, with Boston University, which suffered its first Eastern loss to Colgate last Saturday...
...formally been invested with authority as head of the Nigerian armed forces." So saying, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi (pronounced Agwee-yee Ironsee) abolished the constitution of Africa's most populous nation, eliminated the offices of President and Prime Minister, fired the Premiers of Nigeria's four semi-autonomous regions, and announced that military governors would take their places. Democracy, for the time being at least, was dead in Nigeria...
...greeted the coup in Nigeria is no doubt due to the complexity of politics in that country. An enlightened liberal who has mastered the names of Nigeria's four regions, two electoral coalitions, four major parties (there are lots of little ones), three major tribes (not to mention six semi-major and more than 200 minor ones), and top twelve political leaders, and who has dutifully memorized the phrase "Nigeria, symbol of democracy in tropical Africa", has surely exhausted his capacities for the assimilation of detail. To him the prospect of having to learn a new set of names...
...with a vast surge in the living standards of the rest of Western Europe. Hordes of Europeans with hard money in their pockets began pouring southward across the Pyrenees, lured by cheap prices, fiestas and bullfighting, by clear skies and endless beaches, by the ancient exotic attraction of a semi-Arab land that had dropped out of Europe with the Spanish Armada...